Kimmy Sophia Brown
 

Help the World

This section came from The Significato Journal, which was a joint effort between my husband, Peter, and me. The content is too good to abandon, so we've brought it over to my website. I may or may not update it. We'll see!

It highlights issues that need to be resolved and projects that need help.

Wonderbag Wonderbag Cooks Food and Serves Humanity
Some of the biggest challenges for people in Third World countries have to do with food preparation. Gathering water and firewood for cooking are two of the most time consuming, and often dangerous jobs, for women and children. more
Abraham and Tad Lincoln Abraham Lincoln's Manful Role As a Father
Maligned by his father, he struggled to compensate with his own three sons.
Abraham Lincoln's life has been revisited in newspapers, books, and TV documentaries during this year's [2009] bicentennial anniversary of his birth. Interestingly, little attention has been paid to Lincoln as a parent. more
Wello Water Wheel and Hippo Water Roller Project Serve People and Save Time
Two Great Ideas!
One of the greatest hardships for people in developing countries is obtaining clean water for basic needs such as drinking, cooking and washing. more
Beagle Freedom Project
The Beagle Freedom Project rescues beagles who have spent their lives enduring laboratory experiments. more
Chimps: A New Life, Retirement
Hopefully one day, the balance between all living things will be such that sanctuaries are no longer needed. more
Malala, Girl Hero
By now, most people know about Malala Yousafzai, the sixteen-year-old Pakistani girl who was deliberately shot by the Taliban last year more
Palestinian Farah Chamma's
"How Must I Believe"
There is bold honesty and heart expressed in this girl's "warrior-poem". We pray that conscientious young people like her can be heard around the world. We don't know everything about this poet or what she stands for, but this poem seems to raise the banner of freedom for the Arab world. more
Portland, Maine Reduces Food Waste in a Common Sense Way
Both of these services are the wave of the future. Food will be composted and returned to the earth the way nature intended. more
Saving Horses from PMU, Slaughter and Horsemeat
~ Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Challenges the "Kill Buyers" ~
"Premarin is created by collecting the urine of pregnant mares. The mares are kept in small standing stalls in order to limit their movement, so [as] not to displace the urinary bladder bags used to collect every drop of urine. The mares are kept in this manner for a lengthy portion of their pregnancy, normally about six months." more
"Call of the Trees" by Dorothy Maclean
"The angels not only taught me the value of linking with nature but also continually reminded me of the truth of our own essence." more